Richard Nixon

We will move her forward to the greatest progress we've ever had.

The issues in this campaign are bigger than any party.

I say, my friends, this is a time to speak up for America, not to run America down.

If we do all these things and if we have the united support of an American people who don't think we're a second-rate country - and, believe me, we aren't, and I resent anybody who says it in any respect - if we have that kind of support…

We're going to have to have the maturity to take the rough seas with the calm.

I selected two today that I think will be of interest.

I appreciate the sign back there from Defiance.

We're going to see that all Americans move forward together that no one is left behind, because we need to be sure that all of our citizens, regardless of their backgrounds, have an equal chance at the starting line.

America must move forward militarily, and we will.

This is not a time when Americans should think only in terms of how somebody else tells you to vote.

It's that kind of firm leadership that America needs in the future, and it's that kind of leadership that Cabot Lodge and I, both of us know Mr. Khrushchev; we're going to give you, if you give us the chance on November the 8th.

And then we come here today and see what is really - and I say this advisedly, because I have seen rallies all over America - one of the greatest rallies of this whole campaign, and we thank you for it, right here in Parkersburg, W. Va.

This country has always been filled with a great spirit, a spirit of conquering new frontiers, a spirit in which we are always moving into the future, never satisfied with either the past or the present.

What we want is a better life for our children than we have for ourselves.

I hold with the latter view.

We will work to stop tests and get an agreement, yes; but we will never agree to anything unless we are sure they are going to keep the bargain because that's how America has got into trouble in the past, and we are not going to make that…

Since 1952, my campaigning - either for myself or for other party candidate - has taken me roughly 135,000 miles into every part of the country.

No criticism of this Nation, as I told the delegates, can be permitted to obscure the fact that America is the strongest power in the world - militarily, economically, ideologically - and that we have the resources and the stamina and the…

My view on agriculture is that we should look upon our abundance as a blessing and put existing surpluses to constructive use here at home and in the battle for freedom abroad.

I'm here to stand up for West Virginia and not to run her down.

He used to say, 'Well, now, I remember those good old days, too and,' he said, 'things are a lot better now than they were then.'

One, advocated by the New Deal, is Government control regulating our lives.

I want the opportunity to work in that cause.

My opponent says he's going to spend more, and that's right. But it isn't his money; it's your money he's going to spend.

As I have said repeatedly over the years: In a political campaign, while a candidate's personal life is not the public's business, his record is.